Improvement in box-piles



UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

EDWARD G. .SGOVIL, OF ST. JOHNS, NEW BRUNSWICK.

IMPROVEMENT IN BOX-PILES.

Specification forming part of Letters PatentNo. 169,850, dated November9, 1875 application filed September 17, 1875.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, EDWARD GEORGE Soo- VIL, of St. J ohns, county of St.Johns and Province of New Brunswick, have invented certain'lmprovementsin Box-Piles.

The following description, taken in connection with the accompanyingplate of drawings, hereinafter referred to, forms a full and exactspecification, wherein are set forth the nature and principles of theinvention, by which the same may be distinguished from others of asimilar class, together with such parts thereof as are claimed as new,and are desired to be secured by Letters Patent of the United States.

My invention relates to that class of implements made use of in themanufacture of iron, commonly known as box-piles; and the nature thereofconsists in certainimprovements in the construction of the same,hereinafter described.

In the accompanying plate of drawings, in which corresponding parts aredesignated by the same letters, Figure 1 is a perspective view of abox-pile having my improvements applied thereto. Fig. 2 illustrates themanner in which the side pieces 0 are bent, and con structed of one andthe same piece of metal.

Figs. 3 and 4: are modifications of Figs. 1 and 2.

In carrying out my improved mode of boxpiling preparatory to the actionof the rollingmill, I make use of the box-pile illustrated in Fig. 1 forlarge merchant iron, or any heavy iron. The said box-pile consists in atop bar, a, a bottom bar, I), and the side pieces 0, which are formed bybending the metal of which they are composed into the form clearly shownin Fig. 2.

The bozcpile illustrated in Figs. 3 and 4 is substantially the same withthat shown in Figs. 1 and 2, except that the number of top and bottomplates is greater in. the former case.

Having thus described my invention in such a manner as to render itclearly understood Witnesses:

T. B. ROBINSON, F. PERRY BOURNE.

